Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1951 — Page 5

t Crash

By MAX B. COOK :

[tion on how to operate the ejec-

NEW YORK, June 16—I am tion seat which would “shoot” me

living today on borrowed time.

My good friend and aviation writ-

n fighter crashed into Long Island

Old People's Home N : : — | Sound. MONTREAL, June 18 (UP)— Sound. i ght The death toll in the fire thati, =, . me, FR swept through a Roman Catholie|y, pee 511m p 8 ‘Orphans and Old People’s Home | ways riding plane was raised to 37 today. No. 0813 to which ne number of dead has been I had been as-

“definitely I went § ‘Coroner A. B. Clement said. §1 am now Souvinced ow the because I was Ds in charge of the building ol rend ar Mr Cook and on my own Shock oe chute and oxygen helmet — to bodies that the co n the bodies [Poard the first plane off the run37," he said. “Some of "15 way at the Republic Aircraft Corp, still are in the wreckage. Plant in Farmingdale, L. I, yesFind 32 Bodies terday. Blimp was not ready.

e recov-| He was always impetucus and ts Nr Re echage in a hurry. He had been assigned

yesterd and firemen sifted to an afternoon flight and it was

for mote bodies not quite noon. But someone did

today. plane. 1 Officials said that Norkmen in that new Lockheed F-94 : an acety Re accidentally jet all-weather interceptor very, eg the fire in the B55-VerY much. So the officer in C Sainte Cune- charge said, “okay, Blimp. year-old Hospice De Blimp Wasn't Ready ; But- he still had to don para-

gonde. "Firemen had to shore up thei .' ., 4 catety equipment and ore|Lt: Col. Robert Curtis, piloting in the seat, he apparently, had before they could gearch for mi 0813 wasn’t quite ready either. So/come down with the wreckage lage of Allen was in debt before

walls of the burned-out building

clear of the plane if trouble came,

Then Lt. Alvin G. Moore closed the big hatch over the tandem

er, William 8. (Blimp) Friedman|geats, gunned the powerful Alliof New York is dead — killed son J-35 jet engines and we were when a crippled jet interceptor-ion our way.

We climbed rapidly to 21,000 feet, roled, practiced rapid descent with the brakes and danced around in the clouds for half>an hour over the New York City area.

“How about a little speed, Lieutenant?” 1 asked over the interphone, “Okay, we'll start a speed run down over the Republic runway,” he replied. He notified the control tower of the speed run but was cut off short. / “Forget the run, go north to the Sound, turn right and look for Col. Curtis’ plane and parachutes. He has had trouble and ‘s bailing out.”

One In, One Out We turned at once and-—over he Sound-—down came a brightcolored parachute langling. We notified the tower, circled

not show up. There was an extra/2nd followed him down until he And Blimp wanted that hit the water. Then we watched

the air rescue planes, one of which had seen the bailout. They picked Col. Curtis out of the water. He was suffering from shock and a cut-knee—but was alive. Blimp did not follow. Caught

bodies. Some ‘of the inside walls they gave me Blimp’'s plane. I/only pieces of which have been

collapsed during the three-hour cympeq in, fastened shoulder and

fee. 73-year-old resident of the Roman Catholic Home blamed his opening of a chapel door for fanning the fire into life. But fire department officials " said the fire would have spread anyway. They said workers in an elevator shaft in the center of the building apparently set a tarpaulin afire with an acetylene torch as they worked to install a

new elevator. The fire then shot S i 0]

up a shaft. JY Trapped on Upper Floors :

Most of the persons who died | in the blaze were trapped on up-

per floors. Some in their beds lay : i elpless, Helpless gray-robed nuns ted the 175 young children in the home

from the lunchroom to safety. 398 Value

were being cared for by other re- * ligious organizations throughout Montreal. ‘Two heroic nuns perished in the fite when “they re-entered the

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with a man

found. Lockheed officials say that|for the election at which voters safety belts and received instruc-|the left wingtip tank tore loose, approved the village charter.

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damaged an aileron control, tore about four feet of wing away and left the piane unmanageable. Col. Curtis told* Blimp to shoot himself out but what happened

known, Couldn’t Swim Blimp was not inexperienced in flying. Once he bailed out of a

water off Japan. But he couldn't swim and was not wearing a Mae West during yesterday's flight Maybe he was afraid to bail out, Blimp and’ I were attending the 13th annual convention of the Aviation Writers’ Association here. He had remarked before the flights: “If only 13 of us go up it will be funny.” Just a passing remark, of course. But Blimp’'s (plane was No. 0813, And it was | to have been mine.

‘Good Earth’ Saves Boy BYRACUSE, N. Y., June 16 | (UP) == Three-year-old Terry {O'Brien of nearby Pennellville lowes his life to the “good earth.” {When his father accidentally ran over him with a tractor, the youngster’'s body was pressed into the soft earth and his life was {saved.

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